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• Am. for Tax Reform — TABOR and Education: Setting the Record Straight in Maine

  In their attempt to prevent the passage of the proposed “Taxpayer Bill of Rights” (TABOR) in Maine, opponents have claimed that the provision has “decimated” and “de-funded” schools and public colleges in Colorado, a state which has had TABOR on the books since 1992. Education has been a central focus [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:01pm EST
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• Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is CAGW’s October Porker of the Month

  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is CAGW’s October Porker of the Month Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) its October Porker of the Month. The four-term senator from Texas is loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:00pm EST
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• Americans for Tax Reform — Nonsensical Argument For A Government Regulated Internet #8367

  A lot of nonsensical arguments have been put forward by leftist lobbyists and their allies in their desire for Washington to regulate the internet (to distract attention from Google’s plan to have Congress mandate that consumers subsidize their multi-billion dollar profits). Perhaps the most stupid argument to date, however, comes from [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:00pm EST
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• Ken Blackwell: White House Hatchet Jobs

  This column originally appeared on The American Spectator on October 16, 2009. The Obama White House hesitated not at all in labeling the AHIP study “an insurance industry hatchet job.” The study in question was one conducted by a policy group that is funded by the industry. The study said that premiums [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:59pm EST
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• Am. for Tax Reform — In their own words… Why does the left want ‘net neutrality’ regulation of the Internet?

  Marxist Robert McChesney founded the leftist group “Free Press” in 2002 to press for socialist reforms of the Internet, and a heavy regulatory hand on the ownership of other media. Free Press agitates for the so-called “fairness doctrine”, forcing equal time for the left to respond to conservative commentary on [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:58pm EST
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• Edmunds Says Program Cost Taxpayers $24,000 per Clunker

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:58pm EST
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• Capital Research — Government Takeovers: Is Charity Next?

  Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute has an excellent piece on governmental encroachment on charitable foundations.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:57pm EST
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• Nat’l Taxpayers Union — Time for TABOR in Maine: Nation’s Largest Taxpayer Group Launches Pro-Question 4 Committee

  (Alexandria, VA) - With less than two weeks remaining before Maine citizens vote on Question 4, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), opponents are spreading both money and misinformation to defeat the measure. Recognizing the high stakes of this debate, the 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) has launched a Ballot [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:57pm EST
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• Race To The Top is About More Than Money — Capital Ideas

  SACRAMENTO - California is scrambling for federal Race to the Top grants but there is more at stake than money according to state Sen. Gloria Romero, who held an informational hearing on October 14. “I’m open to having discussions on accountability and what works,” said Sen. Romero in the hearing. “It’s [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:56pm EST
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• AFP — 1,990 Pages of Bureaucracy

  On Thursday, Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) unveiled the most dramatic and costly healthcare bill in the history of this country. Instead of moderating the proposals after months of mounting opposition from the American public, the final bill amounts to an ultimatum. The new tactic by the Administration and Congress is alarming. As [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:56pm EST
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• Funk’s Front Porch - 6 November 2009

  This Week’s City Business The Mayor addressed the Minority and Women Coalition at their luncheon on Monday of this week. He told the group that they shared a common trait: a commitment to focus their efforts on the greater good. He expanded by saying that their group’s focus was to make [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:20pm EST
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• Kobach campaign — Michelle Malkin endorses Kris Kobach for the office of Kansas Secretary of State

  For Immediate Release November 6, 2009 MICHELLE MALKIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR, ENDORSES SECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATE KRIS KOBACH. On November 5th, 2009, Michelle Malkin endorsed Kris Kobach for the office of Kansas Secretary of State. Malkin one of the conservative movement’s most influential voices, is a regular commentator on the [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:17pm EST
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• Patricia Lightner — Supporting Health Care Freedom for Kansans

  In a very short time, the United States House of Representatives will be taking a vote on the Nancy Pelosi Health Care Bill.  You may not have heard, but my opponent, Dennis Moore, has issued a statement in support of the legislation, placing him squarely on the side of the [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:09pm EST
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• Kansans for Life: Call again! PASS STUPAK AMD’T

  URGENT CONGRESSIONAL BULLETIN U.S. house of Representatives to vote today on Stupak-Pitts Amendment WASHINGTON (November 7, 2009) — The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote late TODAY on one of the most important pro-life proposals to come before Congress in years. Bottom Line: Your efforts should now be focused on urging House members to vote [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:07pm EST
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• The Quiet Death of the Kyoto Protocol: American Enterprise Institute

  The Obama administration has rejected the Kyoto Protocol (ensuring it will expire), adopted some of former President George W. Bush’s key positions in international climate negotiations, and demurred when asked about reports that the president has decided to skip the December climate summit in Copenhagen. United Nations climate negotiator Yvo [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:47am EST
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• Chris Cillizza: “The new ad being run in Florida by the Club for Growth should send shivers down Gov. Charlie Crist’s (R) spine”

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:46am EST
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• Chris Cillizza’s top 10 US Senate primaries

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:45am EST
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• Weekly Standard on The Costco Connection — The Very Convenient Gore: The leading global warming alarmist cozies up to a big-box store.

  Former Vice President Al Gore is on the cover of November’s The Costco Connection, the “lifestyle magazine for Costco members.” It’s hard to figure who looks worse in this odd coupling–the global-warming guru or the supersize warehouse store, which would not be a retail powerhouse were it not for the [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:44am EST
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• Forbes — Cuomo’s Self-Serving Suit Against Intel

  Most government officials take oaths of office, swearing to uphold the Constitution, the laws of their state and to serve and protect the people. And most government officials think of what they do in just those terms. But what gets headlines all too often are things that protect no one [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:43am EST
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• Dallas News Editorial: Massacre at Fort Hood

  When soldiers die on the battlefield, it’s a tragedy, but a normal one, if violent death can ever be thought of as normal. And then there are war-zone outrages, such as this week’s murder of five British soldiers in Afghanistan at the hands of a treasonous Afghan police officer, which [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:39am EST
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• Peter Foster: “German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the U.S. Congress that inaction on climate change amounted to a new Berlin Wall of short- sighted self-interest. Ms. Merkel’s claim was upside down”

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:37am EST
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• National Review editorial — Three Strikes against Obamacare

  Barack Obama promises that if the Democrats’ health-care plan is passed, Americans will enjoy wider and better insurance coverage without: 1. being forced out of their current insurance; 2. being subject to government rationing, including the outright denial of life-saving care; 3. spending themselves and future generations into deeper debt. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:36am EST
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• Miami Herald — Florida a battleground state . . . again

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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:35am EST
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• NY Times — Democrats Push Climate Bill Through Panel Without G.O.P. Debate

  WASHINGTON - In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:34am EST
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